We are having a very warm fall this year, it is still getting into the upper 80's, and we are almost at the end of October! Hopefully this is our last stretch though, next week it should be down to the 50's.
A few days ago, we got about an inch of rain which was very nice since we have been having such a drought for the past few months.
Goats
We put our buck with the does the last week of September so we should be having kids in March, although one of our does that we got in June might be having kids in November... we keep going back and forth on whether we think she will or not.
We sold Rose's two girls as bottle babies to a returning customer, and then just a few days ago we sold her two boys to the same person.
We are still letting them free range, but they also have access to hay in the barn. They still spend plenty of time grazing even though the grass is almost all brown.
Pigs
I don't think Millie will be having piglets when we thought, which might be better since we would have had to raise them up through the winter. She has been with Harold this whole time though, so we should have piglets at some point, just probably not when we thought.
Our bottle piglet is finally penned up and doing fine! We thought that since she had been free for so long that she would be super hard to contain, but she hasn't escaped once!
We hope to be able to process her in about four months, but I'm not sure she will be big enough by then since due to the drought she can't be grazing.
We might start to grow out more fodder into grass for her and the other pigs, so that should help, as long as we can keep up with it. We do feed them prairie hay, but they don't eat a whole lot of it.
Quail
Our CA quail are finally looking like the way they should, we were expecting them to grow and lay like Coturnix quail, but they definitely don't!
Ours took nearly six months to get their adult feathers, and it seems like from what we have read that they might only lay 25-40 eggs a year, although some people say it's more like 200 a year...
Either way ours haven't laid once so...
Rabbit
We are down to one rabbit now, our male escaped, and the dogs got him. Our doe, Clover, might be having bunnies at some point, though not likely. I'm not sure what we are going to do in the future about rabbits, so far, they have not been successful at all.
Garden
We cleaned out our summer crops recently and are planning on getting a cover crop of winter rye planted soon.
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